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Making some real headway today on the end scene. Here's a work in progress: It wasn't working for the longest time, but then I had the idea to add some volumetric fog. My renders are about 1.5 minutes per frame, so not too bad. This particular shot is the most complicated in the scene since...

Thank you for taking the time to reply and give feedback! I'm sorry I didn't respond sooner, it's been a rough week with my grandmother passing and then my wife's family dog passing too. I love the idea of doing more with the sound and putting in some sound design. Also great points about...

After getting the "being" looking good, I've spent the rest of the afternoon doing slap comps for this scene. I made some really quick renders in Blender of the different backgrounds have just been speed comping in the Fusion page of my edit. They're not pretty, but definitely better than just...

Hard to believe October is half over. Time flies! I'm spending today designing the angelic being for the final scene. I wasn't able to find an actor that worked, so I'm taking a cue from a short film I did 10 years ago and doing an "energy" effect for the being. The process consists of...

They are especially epic tonight:

I haven't touched Premiere since 2015. Avid was my favorite, and I almost used it on my latest movie, but decided on Resolve so that I could edit the 4K RAW footage natively. I use Avid style shortcuts and tools with it. Premiere used to crash on me multiple times a session. I've never had...

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FINALLY got around to reshooting the final scene yesterday. Yeah, it's been a year, but it all worked out. As promised, here was the setup: It wasn't perfect, but it's good enough for what I need. Most of the scene is medium and close ups, so I don't mind a little roto for the two wide...

A few years back, I was involved with producing a four part documentary series. We decided to do a run of both DVDs and BluRays. In order to get them replicated, we spent $500 on a piece of software called BluStreak Tracer. It's Mac only, but it let us convert a BDMV disc image to BDCMF which...

It's a neat experience. You get a bit of a bite in the mouth, but it goes down smooth.

Usually Tin Cup :cheers:

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Still at it. Been busy working on music and starting on sound design. Tonight I'm a guest on a radio show to talk about the film. Should be fun!

Had McKenna come over today and do her ADR. Took us about two hours which isn't bad. I also showed her the new trailer I'm working on and she loved it. Now I have to go edit for a client which kinda sucks because my new soundbar came in today and I really want to test it with either Top Gun...

This is great feedback, thanks!!!

I haven't made this available to the masses yet, but wanted to get some feedback from people here first. This is what I've come up with for the new trailer. I think there's a few VFX shots that I'd like to touch up, and I might try having the trailer tell more of the story, rather than just be...

Sounds cool! I love Doyle's work!

Spent the past few days cranking out more music and I'm making good progress. The other day I was contacted by a fan of the first two films that runs an online radio show with thousands of listeners. He and I have been in touch over the last ten or so years off and on. In any case, he just...

The Fusion page is great, though I still prefer Nuke. That said, I've done a bunch of videos on my YouTube channel about Fusion, so let me know if you ever have questions or run into any hangups :) Now that I think about it, I did actually do four shots in Fusion for this film. Three green...

Good to know! The wedding in this film is just a private ceremony, so I'm really just looking for a nice theme to underscore the scene.